Broom and mop head



E. 1. GREEN.-

Broom and'Mop Head.

Patented Oct. 10,- 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. J. GREEN, OF VALPARAISO, INDIANA.

BROOM AND MOP HEAD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,352, dated October10, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. J. GREEN, of Valparaiso, in the county of Porterand State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin a Combined Broom and Mop Head; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompany ingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1represents a perspective view of the head when closed and clamping thematerial of which the broom or mop is composed, and Fig. 2 represents aperspective View of the head when it is opened or spread to receive thematerial of which the broom or mop is to be made.

Similar letters of reference, where they oc our in the separate figures,denote like parts ofthe broom or mop head in both of the drawlugs.

I am aware that many kinds of metal heads for brooms and mops have beenmade, but they are generally, it'not universally, made each for itsspecial use-that is to say, it is a broomhead or a mop-head, andnotapplicablc to both uses or purposes. They are, moreover, asheretofore constructed, complicated and not easily operated except bymechanics skilled in the business, (I refer more particularly to thebroom-heads,) while they are to be used by those not skilled in the useof such implements as are necessary to put them together or to take themapart. Another objection to the present broom-heads consists in the factthat they are composed of several pieces, the loss, breakage, ormisplacement of a single one of which destroys the whole head; and,besides, the device for fastening the head to the handle is often aseparate piece or pieces, and liable to loss or misplacement, and asimilar consequence.

In my mode of constructing broom or mop heads I use but two pieces informing the clamps, frame, and fastenings, including the device forfastening the head to the broom or mop handle.

Myinvention consistsin two skeleton frames or sections, so made thatthey may move one upon the other, and one shut within the other, eachsection having cast or wrought with or on it a semi screw shank, sofitted and arranged as that when the two sectional frames or clamps arebrought together to clamp the material the two semi-screwshanks willalso come together and form a whole screw-shank, which whole shank, whenscrewed into the broom or mop handle, holds everything firm and rigid.

I propose to make my broom or mop head of iron, cast or wrought, orparts of each, and for more ornamental ones brass or other similar metalmay be used.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

A and B represent two sections or frames, made substantially alike,except that the lat ter, B, fits within the other, A, and isconsequently alittleless in size and dimensions than the one, A, toadmit' of this. The sections are composed substantially of a bow, a,with flanges b to give them strength, and with cross-bar c, uniting theends of the bows, and,finally, witha semi-screw-shank, d, these partsbeing common to both sections, jaws, or parts. On the outer section, A,are cast or wrought two studs, pins, or projections, 0, one on eachside, and on the inner section, B, are formed two recesses that willreceive these pins, and thus guide the two sections when bringing themtogether to clamp the material that is to form the broom or mop. Thesepins or studs 6 also form fulcra for the sections to work upon when theyare used as levers for tightly clamping the material between the crossbars or pieces 0. When the two sections are brought together the twosemi-screwshanks d are also brought together, and prac tically form onescrew-shank, which, when screwed into the handle, holds everything tightand firm.

hen the broom or mop is worn out the head is unscrewed from the handle,when the jaws or clamps are free to open and release the old and befurnished with new material, and be again closed and held by uniting itto the handle.

I prefer to have the pins or studs 6 as shown; but they may pass throughthe inner frame instead of into recesses in or on its edge, so as toform a permanent hinged or pivoted connection, and thus prevent the twosections from leaving each other, while they can swing far enough on thehinged or pivoted joint to open the jaws of the sections. Someguiding-connection should be made between the sections, so that when thesemi-shanks d are being used as levers or handles to force the jaws orbars upon the material they are to clamp and hold the sections shouldnot slip or get out of place.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A metallic broom or mop head composed of two sections;.and each sectionhaving a semiscrew-shank upon it, so that when the jaws or clamps of thesections are brought together the semi'screw-shanks will also be broughtup against each other and form a whole screwshank, upon which a handleis screwed to hold everything tight and firm, substantially asdescribed.

EDWIN J. GREEN. Witnesses:

M. A. SALISBURY, G. M. EnMoNDs.

